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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Broken down acts.
Conflict
Scenes
Aside
Elision
2. A character struggles against some outside force.
External Conflict
Parallelism
Recognition
Imagery
3. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.
Image
Climax
Foreshadowing
Elegy
4. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.
Sestet
Characterization
Spondee
Iamb
5. The selection of words in a literary work.
Lyric Poem
Rhythm
Diction
Reversal
6. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
Free Verse
Legend
Apostrophe
Dialogue
7. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.
Aubade
Rising Action
1st Person
Metonymy
8. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.
3rd Person (Limited)
Nonfiction
Scenes
Onomatopoeia
9. A short saying with a moral.
Rhythm
Aphorism
Subject
Hyperbole
10. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.
Satire
Stanza
Cliche
Author's Purpose
11. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.
Tone
Recognition
Elegy
Setting
12. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.
Plot
Reversal
Metaphor
Protagonist
13. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.
Pyrrhic
Couplet
Parody
Onomatopoeia
14. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.
Foreshadowing
Oxymoron
Catharsis
Understatement
15. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.
Pyrrhic
Octave
Symbolism
Hyperbole
16. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.
Dactyl
Irony
Dialect
Myth
17. A strong pause within a line.
Caesura
Suspense
Symbol
Flashback
18. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.
Satire
Motif
Conceit
Rising Action
19. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.
Climax
Dialect
Tercet
Epiphany
20. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.
Ballad
Fiction
Denotation
Legend
21. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.
Allusion
Narrative Poem
Cliche
Octave
22. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.
Ode
Imagery
Internal Conflict
Hyperbole
23. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.
Parable
Understatement
Allusion
Rising Action
24. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Blank Verse
Structure
Stereotype
Falling Action
25. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.
Character
Syntax
Climax
Closed Form
26. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.
Closed Form
Legend
Solioquy
Point of View
27. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.
Reversal
Analogy
Subject
Iamb
28. The emotion or feeling a word creates.
Elision
Connotation
Oxymoron
Symbolism
29. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.
Hyperbole
Act
Recognition
Apostrophe
30. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.
Free Verse
Imagery
1st Person
Epigram
31. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.
Parallelism
Dactyl
Dialogue
Falling Action
32. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.
Villanelle
Repetition
Foil
Symbolism
33. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.
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34. The time and place of a story or play.
Foil
Understatement
Dramatic Irony
Setting
35. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.
Act
Subplot
Persona
Aubade
36. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Foot
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Diction
Symbol
37. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.
Characterization
Dramatic Irony
Iamb
Anapest
38. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.
Image
Sonnet
Flashback
Narrative Poem
39. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.
Connotation
Simile
Convention
External Conflict
40. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.
1st Person
Villanelle
Symbol
Octave
41. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.
Verbal Irony
Epigram
Couplet
Parallelism
42. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.
Conflict
Quatrain
Synecdoche
Ballad
43. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.
Aside
Convention
Plot
Author's Purpose
44. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.
Complication
Literal Language
Image
Onomatopoeia
45. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.
Catharsis
Motif
Epic
Solioquy
46. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.
Theme
Diction
Legend
Meter
47. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.
Mood
Dactyl
Metaphor
Sonnet
48. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.
Villanelle
Anapest
Allegory
Paradox
49. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.
Narrative Poem
Cliche
Rising Action
Foil
50. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.
Persona
Irony
3rd Person (Limited)
Protagonist